Only unpublished contributions will be considered. Articles submitted for publication should be sent to the executive secretary and/or editor of Manuscrito.

All articles will be blind refereed by specialists in the area.

Papers may be English, Portuguese, French or Spanish.

Contributors should enclose an abstract, not exceeding 15 lines in lenght.

After being accepted for publication, authors should send a copy of their article by e-mail, in WORD and PDF, and with the bibliography and references in the standard Manuscrito format.

Once accepted for publication, additions, deletions and changes in the papers will not be permitted.

Manuscrito occasionally publishes critical studies of recent works and bibliographical reviews, and occasional special issues devoted to selected topics, with papers by invited authors (all papers submitted to blind refereeing).

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Contributors will receive free of charge one copy of the issue containing their article and twenty offprints of their article.

Articles are only accepted for consideration by Manuscrito on condition that they are not simultaneously submitted to other journal.

Authors will not be charged with any fees for the editorial processing and publication of accepted articles.

Archiving
This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed file system among participating libraries and allows them to create permanent archives of the journal for the preservation and restoration of files.

Please follow carefully the punctuation convention in the samples above, and be as complete as possible regarding the facts of publication.

Quotations: The author (date) convention should be used for quotations internal to the text:

"See Quine (1948), Devitt (1980), Lewis (1983)."

"...with H. P. Grice's conceptual creature construction (1975)."

Further details follow a coma after the date, as in:

Putnam (1964, p. 1) claims that a new philosophy of science is being constructed.

As Carston (1988, pp. 161-2) has argued...

According to Frege (1884, § 62), numbers can be defined by abstraction.

Frege's second definition of number (1884, §§ 62-4) failed for other reasons.

Footnotes should not be used for normal quotations; these shoud be incorporated in the text, using the author (date) convention. For all articles or books quoted, the date used in the text should be the one of the original publication, and not the one of the reprint, even if the page references are to the reprint. Thus, an author referring to Putnam's "Mathematics without foundations" (originally published in 1967), using the second reprinted edition in Putnam's book Mathematics, Matter and Method (published in 1979) would quote from the first page of the article in the following way: "(Putnam 1967, p. 43)".

Short quotations may appear just enclosed in double quotation marks. Longer quotations should appear as indented material, preceded and succeeded by a line space, and should not be enclosed in quotation marks. The information about the source of the reference should appear as part of the indented material, after the full stop, according to the following sample:

This, I think, is characteristic of metaphysics, or at least of that part of metaphysics called ontology: one who regards a statement on this subject as true at all must regard it as trivially true. One's ontology is basic to the conceptual scheme by which he interprets all experiences, even the most commonplace ones. (Quine 1953, p. 10)

Quotation of Classical Works: For classical works, authors might prefer to use an abbreviation instead of the date. For example, an author referring to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason could write "According to Kant (CPR, B 43)..." or "According to Kant (KrV, B 43)...". The abbreviation used should be mentioned in the reference section at the end, as in

Foreign words: Foreign words (to the language in which the article is written, of course) should be italicized.

Author Name: Author name and the author's full institutional address (including e-mail) should appear on the left immediately after the title and before the main text with the author's name in capitals.

Abstract and Key-words: An abstract (of approximately ten lines) and some key-words (not more than six) must be included immediately after the author's institutional address. Please include also an English version of the abstract, even if the article is not written in English.